The American Nation A History of the United States, Combined Volume (14th Edition)

The War of 1812 201

Gulf of Mexico

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Jackson’s night attack

British withdrawl

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New Orleans

LOUISIANA

British New Orleans Campaign,

FORT ST PHILLIP November 22, 1814– February 11, 1815

Mobile

Jan. 8–18:

Secondary

attack fails

Dec. 23:

British land,

Jan. 27:

British withdraw troops

Dec. 24:

Night

battle,

Jackson's Final

position

Dec. 14:

American

gunboats

destroyed

Dec. 13: British

fleet arrives,

troops sent

to seize

outlying

islands

and forts

Nov. 11:

Jackson returns from

Pensacola operation,

leaving for New

Orleans Nov. 22,

almost all of his troops

are left in Mobile under

Winchester’s command

CONN.R.I.

MASS.

N.H.

N.J.

MAINE

NOVA

SCOTIA

New York

Detroit

Albany

Washington

Cincinatti

Philadelphia

Charleston

Norfolk

Huntsville

Mobile Pensacola

Vicksburg

New Orleans

Savannah

St. Augustine

Baltimore

Buffalo

Oswego

Plattsburgh

Erie

Cleveland

VIRGINIA

NEW YORK

PENNSYLVANIA

UPPER CANADA

(BRITISH)

VERMONT

MARYLAND

DELAWARE

British movements, 1812

British movements, 1813

British movements, 1814–15

U.S. movements, 1812

U.S. movements, 1813

U.S. movements, 1814–15

British blockade

Battle (British victory)

Battle (American victory)

LOUISIANA

MISSOURI

TERRITORY

MICHIGAN

TERRITORY

INDIANA

TERRITORY

OHIO

MISSISSIPPI

TERRITORY

FLORIDA

(Spain)

GEORGIA

SOUTH

CAROLINA

NORTH

CAROLINA

KENTUCKY

TENNESSEE

MACKINACFORT

FORTNIAGARA

FORTDEARBORN

Battleof the

Thames

Put-in-Bay

HorseshoeBend

The War of 1812In the first phase of the war, 1812–1813, the United States attempted to invade Canada near Detroit, Buffalo, and Plattsburgh
(New York); it failed. In the second phase, 1814, the British invaded the Chesapeake and burned Washington, DC. The final phase of the war
occurred from November 1814 to early 1815, after the Treaty of Ghent was signed. British troops landed at the mouth of the Mississippi River
and were defeated by General Andrew Jackson at New Orleans.